Samantha Hunt has stolen my heart this year, both of the books I've read of hers have gotten 5 stars. I can't stop thinking about them. The edition of The Seas I read has a foreword by Maggie Nelson, if someone described a book that I had written like this I would melt into a puddle and probably be catatonic. The foreword was right too, The Seas is a haunting work of art. The imagery stands large in my mind as I remember the story. Hunt has a way of describing things so visceral I ached to read them, ached with loneliness, loss, want, need and hunger.